Hi Simon, Thanks for your reply. I guess I could use == instead. What I want is a method for checking if two S4 class objects are the same. I thought that == was strictly meant for atomic and list types?
Andrew On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 4:45 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > Andrew, > > you should not re-define identical, it is not a semantic operation and > does NOT test equality. Did you mean to write a `==` method instead? > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > > On Feb 2, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Andrew Plowright <plowright.and...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hello, I have an 'identical()' method in my library > > > > > https://github.com/andrew-plowright/TileManager/blob/0f213a6bcce4bc4b6d0f5e6672660409e09c22c5/R/tileScheme-methods.R#L198 > > > > I recently started getting a warning message regarding a new > > 'extptr.as.ref' argument that was added to R-devel in December. When > > running devtools::check_rhub() I get: > > > > ``` > > * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... WARNING > > identical > > TRUE, ignore.bytecode = TRUE, ignore.environment = > > FALSE, ignore.srcref = TRUE, extptr.as.ref = FALSE) > > Code: function(x, y, num.eq = TRUE, single.NA = TRUE, attrib.as.set = > > Codoc mismatches from documentation object 'identical': > > Docs: function(x, y, num.eq = TRUE, single.NA = TRUE, attrib.as.set = > > TRUE, ignore.bytecode = TRUE, ignore.environment = > > FALSE, ignore.srcref = TRUE) > > Argument names in code not in docs: > > extptr.as.ref > > ``` > > > > I tried adding the 'extptr.as.ref' argument to my documentation, but now > I > > get a new warning: > > > > ``` > > Documented arguments not in \usage in documentation object 'identical': > > > > 'extptr.as.ref' > > Functions with \usage entries need to have the appropriate \alias > > entries, and all their arguments documented. > > The \usage entries must correspond to syntactically valid R code. > > See chapter 'Writing R documentation files' in the 'Writing R > > Extensions' manual. > > ``` > > > > So it seems that a warning is being generated both with or without the > > extptr.as.ref in my documentation. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! > > > > Andrew > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel